As UTF8 encoding is by default installed/enabled in RedHat Enterprise Linux 6.5 / CentOS and similar distros, it drives me mad to have weird line characters in terminal when I logged in via SecureCRT/Putty due UTF-8 encoding. Read more…

I have thick provisioned server, and I need move it and shrink it. As Thick option provides flat file of full size , even if OS is few GB, I have full size vmdk file ;( which is harder to copy around. Thin provisioned vmdk disk is possible shrink via ESX shell command ( vmkfstools –punchzero *.vmdk) but what to do if disk is in Thick state ? Its possible, but little bit more complicated.

I needed sometimes to grant access to web root for developer/friends and don’t want to allow them “chillout” thru directories . Here is sample how to setup SSHD server to allow sftp connection and chroot it to home directory – basically lock user via SFTP to Virtual Home for web server.